> The first victim was tree, that vital component of every > system; I got the src deb, made a dpkg-source -x ***.dsc > (I had the diff and the tar.gz) and it expanded nicely; > I then made a simple configure && make; there were > issued with MAXPATHLEN - I red about that in the Debian > GNU/Hurd page; seing this, I made such a brutish hack that > I won't even sy it in public; anyway, ir compiled and it worked. > Great. I think Neal may have come up with a more permanent solution, but perhaps this was just for one package.
> After that I had a go with epic, same process, same > MAXPATHLEN error, same brutish hack, but this time it gave > a linker error, apparently all the function in term.o that > are supported by a term lib (neither termcap or > terminfo were detected during configure) fail to link. > It sounds like you don't have development libraries installed for these packages. In Debian we often break packages down into a package of binary-independent stuff (documentation, scripts, etc.) that can be used on any architecture, a binary runtime package (the main libraries needed by users of the software), and a development package that includes the header files and static libraries used by developers. It sounds like you are missing the development pieces of termcap/terminfo. Check the "devel" directory at ftp.debian.org under the Hurd and see if you find what you need. Thanks, -Brent
